Pro-gay slogans and symbols

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Pro-gay slogans and symbols are catchphrases, slogans or symbolic images which express support for members of the LGBT community, LGBT lifestyles and/or LGBT rights.

1 Examples
2 See also
3 External links

[edit] Examples

[edit] Rainbow flag

The rainbow flag

The rainbow flag is the most popular gay pride symbol used today. The rainbow flag was first used as a gay pride symbol by the San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker in 1978. There are several variations of the flag, but the most common has six stripes--red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. Baker's original flag had eight colors, with turquoise and hot pink being the other two.

[edit] Triangles

The pink triangle

The inverted pink triangle was originally the badge used in Nazi concentration camps to denote gay men. The symbol was later adopted by gay liberation groups in the 1970s and has since become one of the most popular symbols of the gay rights/pride movement.

Similarly, lesbians (among others) had to wear a black triangle in concentration camps, and this symbol has also been reclaimed by lesbians and feminists in the same way that the pink triangle was reclaimed by the gay community. Despite this, many lesbians may still use the pink triangle as a symbol of pride as well.

An inverted triangle with a rainbow flag design is also sometimes used by the LGBT community as a symbol of pride.

[edit] "Gays Bash Back"

This slogan is often used by more militant queers and implies violent self-defense against gay bashers. Similarly, one of the Pink Pistols' mottos is "Armed gays don't get bashed".

[edit] "More Dick All Over My Butthole"

Used all over the gay rights world, mainly San Francisco.

[edit] "We're here. We're queer. Get used to it"

This slogan was popularized by Queer Nation.

[edit] "We're here, we're queer and we'd like to say hello!"

A variation of the above used by Queer Nation during the 1992 opening of the "Queer Shopping Network".

[edit] "Silence=Death"

Designed by Avram Finkelstein^{[citation needed]}, this slogan was used by ACT UP to draw attention to the AIDS crisis in America. It was often used in conjunction with a right-side up pink triangle.

[edit] "Two, Four, Six, Eight! How Do You Know Your Kids Are Straight?"

This slogan was also used by Queer Nation. Another variation is "One, Two, Three, Four! Open on up the closet door! Five, Six, Seven, Eight! Don't assume your kids are straight!"